IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
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This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo. In this little tutorial, I will show how to dynamically hide the Total Cost field in the PR Lines tab of the Purchase Requisitions (PR) application for the PRs that are in status APPR. This is just an example and the same configuration can be used […]
Some days ago I came across this interesting post from Pam Denny that describes the 80/20 rule. Based on this empirical rule 80% of the report processing is done by only 20% of used reports.That’s why I developed a simple SQL query that uses the LASTRUNDURATION field of the REPORT table to list the report […]
This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo. Here is a step-by-step guide about how to dynamically highlight workorders that have a high priority in the WOTRACK application. This is just an example and the same configuration can be used to change the color of a field based on a particular condition. Define conditional […]
Did you have ever spent precious time searching in the Group Security application what group grants a specific permission to a certain user?Do you want to list all the sigoption granted to a specific user?Do you want to list all the groups to which a specific user belongs together with all the granted sigoptions?Do you […]
Today I want to share with you a little tip that allows to search for empty (NULL) values in every Maximo/TPAE application.You can search for null and not null values by entering the following values into a search field on the Find tab: To search for a null value enter: ~null~ To search for not […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this article I will describe some common ways of iterating through an MboSet and what is the best approach.In the following examples mboSet is the already holding the MboSetRemote that you need to traverse. Example 1 (worst solution) for(int i=0; i<mboSet.count(); i++;){ MboRemote currMbo=mboSet.getMbo(i); […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. If you need to format dates and numbers into a locale-sensitive string or if you just need to convert data between different types then take a look at psdi.util.MaxType class.For example, the following piece of code shows how to correctly format a currency amount into […]
As a Maximo consultant I spend many hours on test and development systems developing customizations and testing business processes. This means I frequently login on Maximo Web UI with several users and passwords.I typically store the passwords in my web browser to speedup the annoying step but today I have found a better trick to […]
This article explains a procedure that can be used to migrate the Maximo 7.1 Administrative Workstation from one physical system to another. Installation of products based on Maximo/TPAE infractructure (MAM, TAMIT, CCMDB, etc.), industry specific extension (Nuclear, Transportation, etc.) or fixpacks use the IBM Autonomic Deployment Engine. This is installed at the beginning of the […]